v10.0.1

10.0.1 smooths the first upgrade path after Video.js 10, with clearer documentation and fixes for React media and Mux streams.

React media and playback

Adapter-backed React media now hand mediaRef the playback adapter, as intended, matching what embeds already did and what useMedia() returns. On HlsJsVideo, MuxVideo, DashVideo, and other adapter-backed components, mediaRef.current is the adapter, so mediaRef.current?.engine reaches the underlying engine; use ref when you need the rendered <video> or <audio> element. Video and Audio keep handing mediaRef their element (#3141).

Embed components now honor React’s autoPlay prop, so YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, Twitch, TikTok, Cloudflare, and Wistia embeds behave like native media without leaving a stray autoplay attribute on the iframe. The same update removes callback-ref cleanup warnings in React 18 (#3136). Unmounting YouTubeVideo also no longer lets the YouTube IFrame API remove an iframe before React cleans it up (#3154).

MuxVideo now recognizes stream.mux.com URLs with or without .m3u8. Extension-less stream URLs gain the same playback ID, poster, storyboard, metadata, playback parameters, and DRM configuration as their .m3u8 equivalents (#3143). See the React MuxVideo reference or HTML MuxVideo reference.

Documentation and navigation

The docs navigation now lets you switch between the pre-release docs, the current version, and the legacy site from one menu (#3144). Blog posts from before Video.js 10 now redirect to the legacy blog, while the current archive points readers there for older posts (#3127). The Video.js 10 announcement is also available for the full release story (#3061).

Skin reference pages now include live React and HTML examples, so you can see each packaged skin before adapting it (#3137). The docs now consistently call Video.js attachable media a media component, while reserving “media element” for the native HTMLMediaElement (#3150).